Distributed Farm Optimization System

Abstract

The growing management system optimizes peak aggregate nutrients normalized against aggregate delivered cost for edible plants including vegetables, herbs and fruits. This growing management system enables each plant harvested for consumer maximized nutrient and/or flavor value, not for farmer or distribution profit maximization, with more specific objective of harvesting at time of immediate consumer consumption.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A plant production system comprised of a plant in a growing stage, a cost basis in a time domain for the plant in the growing stage, the cost basis in the time domain includes harvesting costs and is operable to decrease growing cost normalized by an aggregate nutrient level on a combined cost basis including at least two cost parameters of energy, land rent, fertilizer and crop loss cost. 
     
     
         2 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  whereby the plant growth is comprised of a first early stage and a second mature stage. 
     
     
         3 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  further comprised of a plant pricing system based on the aggregate nutrient or flavor levels. 
     
     
         4 . The plant production system according to  claim 3  wherein the plant pricing system based on the aggregate nutrient or flavor levels has pricing established at the time of either plant consumption or delivery. 
     
     
         5 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  further comprised of a plant pricing system based on the aggregate nutrient or flavor levels. 
     
     
         6 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  wherein the plant growth is at a consumer consumption location operable to minimize post harvest loss of at least one of nutrient or flavor level. 
     
     
         7 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  further comprised of a motion based harvesting system having an onboard real-time nutrient measurement sensor and a database record having at least three parameters including recent measurement time, nutrient or flavor level, and location coordinates. 
     
     
         8 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  further comprised of a recipe formulation modulator whereby the formulation modulator normalizes the recipe in a real-time basis on a nutrient or flavor basis. 
     
     
         9 . The plant production system according to  claim 2  further comprised of a nutrient or flavor blasting system to maximize nutrient or flavor levels during the second mature stage of plant growth. 
     
     
         10 . The plant production system according to  claim 9  wherein the nutrient or flavor blasting system is further comprised of a projected or actual plant consumption historic or predictive database record operable to predict the beginning and ending of the nutrient or flavor blasting period. 
     
     
         11 . The plant production system according to  claim 10  further comprised of a fully time amortized cost basis, and wherein the nutrient or flavor blasting system begins and ends the nutrient or flavor blasting period for consumer consumption to reach the inflection point of nutrient or flavor normalized over the fully time amortized cost basis. 
     
     
         12 . The plant production system according to  claim 11  wherein the fully time amortized cost basis includes harvest costs placed at time zero. 
     
     
         13 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  further comprised of a database record having growing parameters including optical profile at the beginning and ending of the first early stage and the second mature stage of plant growth. 
     
     
         14 . The plant production system according to  claim 7  further comprised of a routing system between the plant start point and the plant end point whereby the route taken maximizes the updating of the most number of plants with the latest most recent nutrient or flavor measurement time. 
     
     
         15 . The plant production system according to  claim 1  further comprised of a gas optimization module measuring an oxygen to carbon dioxide ratio whereby the gas optimization module varies air flow between a farm location growing the plant and a location in which the consumer consumes the plant. 
     
     
         16 . The plant production system according to  claim 15  further comprised of an airflow exchanger operable to minimize energy consumption. 
     
     
         17 . A method for operating a plant production system according to  claim 1  having a control system operable to regulate the nutrient or flavor level at a minimum growing cost basis within a time domain basis. 
     
     
         18 . A method for operating a plant production system according to  claim 1  having a control system operable to regulate the nutrient or flavor level at a maximum nutrient or flavor level at the plant consumption time domain. 
     
     
         19 . A method for operating a plant production system according to  claim 1  having a control system operable to regulate the nutrient or flavor level at a maximum nutrient or flavor level within a controlled farm. 
     
     
         20 . A method for operating a plant production system according to  claim 1  having a control system operable to regulate the nutrient or flavor level at a maximum nutrient or flavor level within an uncontrolled farm.